Hospital medical staffs and credentialing committees can count themselves among the many targets of the Office of Inspector General (OIG) in the coming year. According to the 2014 OIG Work Plan, released at the end of January, the government agency has added "oversight of...
Requirements for licenses to practice medicine differ from state to state, and even when information is available across state lines, license portability can be administratively burdensome. The Federation of State Medical Boards' (FSMB) Interstate Medical Licensure Compact...
Requirements for licenses to practice medicine differ from state to state, and even when information is available across state lines, license portability can be administratively burdensome. The Federation of State Medical Boards' (FSMB) Interstate Medical Licensure Compact...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 4
No group of practitioners functions smoothly and in harmony with other groups of practitioners all the time. Conflicts will arise anywhere committed professionals care deeply about their patients and strive to provide the best care possible. However, conflict needn't be...
The practitioner reappointment process in hospitals is every bit as important to the credentialing process as initial appointments, even though it is sometimes viewed by practitioners as merely a bureaucratic exercise.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 4
Last November, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced plans to revise the NPDB Guidebook, the National Practitioner Data Bank's (NPDB) policy manual. In November 2013, the HRSA provided a draft of the new...
